GoddessRachel

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  Have you called your mother lately?

  by beksbks in

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  my mom is pretty cool.

  81 years old and still going fairly strong.

  my older sister was the first one to leave the dubs in our 3rd gen jw family.

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  GoddessRachel

  Wow, LouBelle, what a story! You are incredibly strong! I am happy for you that you and your mom have an overall good relationship now. That's wonderful.

  Rachel
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  Are you a better person now?

  by bluecanary in

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  [endif] i'm curious about how people who have shifted religious beliefs feel about their own morals.

  has the religion you've chosen made you a better person?

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  GoddessRachel

  Hi Alanv,

  Rational thoughts are nice, aren't they? The freedom to conclude logical things based on actual thought. WOW. Seriously though, the freedom to think for myself just might be my most favorite freedom yet! It's so exhilerating! And proof enough to me personally that the Jehovah's Witnesses don't have The Truth - why would God create in us this marvelous capacity and then condemn us for actually employing it? That just does not make sense to me.

  Rachel
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  question about a jw

  by yomama83 in

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  hello i am new to this site.

  i am not sure if im posting in the right spot but have a few questions.

  i am no way a jw never have been and never will be.

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  GoddessRachel

  Hi yomama, I hope this is someone you are barely an acquaintance with and not someone you are hoping will be your boyfriend or something. He sounds disgusting! You state that he is sleeping with his adult daughter like you think that is sort of okay or something! Yuck!

  Welcome!

  Rachel
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  So confused

  by greenie in

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  so i've been reading this board for a while but never posted.

  so, go easy on me!

  i have a lot of thoughts, but they're not going to be totally clear.. my story: i was dating a guy, not long, but totally fell in love with him.

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  GoddessRachel

  Welcome, greenie, I am happy for you and your baby. I am in agreement with the others that if your man decides to be a JW it will be very difficult for you in ways you can't fully appreciate now. I really hope he decides to just move on with his life. There is little room for the outside world when you are a full-time Jehovah's Witness; the organization has purposely designed it that way.

  Good luck,

  Rachel
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  "I'm Perfect, You're Doomed" discussion...

  by Tuesday in

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  has anyone read this book?.

  i figured i had to comment because everyone was telling me oh tim, youre going to love this book.

  she went to the same assemblies as you, she was raised in a similar household, she did poetry slams as well.

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  GoddessRachel

  Fine. I was simply making a suggestion of something you might not have thought of. I didn't think it was that big of a deal. Apparently you have already thought of everything and don't need input from others. Too bad you can't fix your original post that said it welcomed people's thoughts. Apparently that meant to only post about our own personal thoughts that had to do with us. I am sorry that I had a thought about you, thought it might be helpful to you, and posted it. Apparently this is some kind of boundary I have crossed. I honestly don't see it as crossing a boundary, but maybe that is an indication of how far off the mark I still am in many ways.

  I still don't see how suggesting that perhaps you didn't like the book because you couldn't relate to the main character was undermining your reasons or implying you had some ulterior motive. That just does not make sense to me.

  Perhaps you really take yourself too seriously when it comes to books written by former Jehovah's Witnesses about their experiences in the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Also, I didn't read the book because I wanted to read a book about a chick who royally f'ed up her life. I picked up the book because I wanted to read someone's unique experience with the Jehovah's Witness organization. I was not disappointed, because I didn't have an incredibly strict criteria going in. I had an open mind. If you want the story to be told in a very specific way why don't you write it yourself and read that over and over again?
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  THIS IS IT, THIS IS IT, THIS IS IT?!!!!

  by Hikaru in

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  google alerts caught this.. http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/07/17/news0133.htm.

  <quote>.

  summit ends with call for global peace .

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  Well, unfortunately I have spent a large part of my day thinking about how I can reach out and help this girl, and now I feel as though I have been duped. Looking up her thread history I see she wants to search for signs of Armageddon and freak out, she wants to believe she is dating and in love with someone online whom she has never met, she wants to convert him and believes she will even though he told her he wouldn't or couldn't or didn't want to (she doesn't care what he wants). She wants to live in Hikaru-land and not in reality!

  Hikaru, I hope someday you actually seek help. If you really want to talk, and want to be understood, I'm here to understand you. If you just want to find online news articles and then shriek "OMG THIS IS IT" over and over again, well there is nothing I can do. My heart goes out to you.

  Rachel
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  Is this anything?

  by Hikaru in

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  this anything to be worried about???.

  http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1033330&lang=eng_news.

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  Hikaru, do you really believe some news article is going to show you that Armageddon is here? What is up with you, girl? Your fear is freaking me out! Your thread history is alarming!

  Rachel
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  Is This Anything?

  by Hikaru in

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  this came up in google alerts.

  http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/15/keynsian-fiscal-stimulus-oped-cx_nr_1016roubini.html

  now most of the article is lame, but that first part.... is it just the guys figure of speech?

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  GoddessRachel

  Hikaru lives in a bubble of fear and ignorance, and I am extremely concerned for her. Is there anything we can do for this girl? Does she only speak to people she only knows online and her grandmother? This girl is in trouble, I think.
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  My mother's friend's sister's missionary cousin says Harmageddon is immminnenet

  by daniel-p in

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  serious..

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  GoddessRachel

  ((((((((((((((((Hikaru))))))))))))))))))))) I am so sorry you are hurting so deeply, sweetheart. I am genuinely sorry.

  "Life is for living." Thank you, Freedom Fighter, how beautifully succinct and how true. How true.

  Rachel
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  Has there been a JW Facebook directive?

  by Gregor in

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  or is it just the usual internet cautions?.

  i have an jw aunt who abruptly de activated her fb account yesterday..

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  GoddessRachel

  Daniel,

  I would always recommend that you ignore any friend requests from truly faithful JW's - you can't trust them! UGH!

  It's much easier to ignore the initial request than to deal with repercussions of deleting the connection later. Trust me.